Seeach Sod just took this another step forward. On Wednesday, October 23, Parshas Vayera, the girls of Seeach Sod's elementary and high school for girls with special needs joined the girls of Darchei Binah seminary for a joint challah baking event. Oh, and the challah baking was hardly only about baking challos, or even the emotional hafrashas challah that followed. The girls prepared challah covers, created beautiful aprons, and sang and danced in beautiful circles that blurred all differences and created the unity that is the underlying truth of our ultimate connection.

A similar program took place on Thursday, too, at the women's employment center and at the elementary school for girls with complex disabilities.

That Shabbos, Ki Tov Sachra seminary hosted the women of three of our residential homes for a beautiful Shabbos together.

Ever since its inception a few years ago, the Shabbos Project was all about uniting Jews of all stripes and affiliations together; celebrating our connection rather than our differences. Because Shabbos belongs to us all. The very concept of all members of our nation busy with the same holy mission at the very same time has lent it its unique flavor and power.

One group has historically been left out, even if inadvertently, of similar events: the special needs community. Now, Seeach Sod and the Shabbos Project changed that. For the first time, Klal Yisrael truly united. For the first time, girls and women with special needs joined, not as tolerated guests, but as fully equal partners.

Just one more way in which Seeach Sod strives to bring Mashiach one step closer.